Ray Charles – What’d I Say AUDIOPHILE

Ray Charles – What’d I Say (2LP, 45RPM)

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Piano, vocals - Ray Charles [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ray Charles]

Vocals - Mary Ann Fisher

Backing vocals - The Raelettes

Saxophone tenor, Saxophone alto - David Newman

Saxophone bariton - Emmett Dennis

Saxophone bariton - Bennie Crawford

Trumpet - Marcus Belgrave, Lee Harper, Ricky Harper, Joe Bridgewater, John Hunt

Bass - Edgar Willis

Double bass - Roosevelt Sheffield

Drums - Richie Goldberg, William Peeples, Teagle Fleming, Milt Turner

Written and arranged by Ray Charles


 

2LPs, gatefold jacket printed by Stoughton Printing

Limited edition

Original analog Master tape : YES

Heavy Press : 180g

Record color : Black

Speed : 45 RPM

Size : 12'’

Stereo

Studio

Record Press : Quality Record Pressings

Label : Analogue Productions - Atlantic 75 series

Original Label : Atlantic

Recorded September 11, 1952 - February 18, 1959 in New York City

Produced by Ahmet Ertegün, Jerry Wexler

Liner Notes by Ren Grevatt

Photography by Lee Friedlander

Design by Marvin Israel

Originally released in October 1959

Reissued in 2024

 

Tracks:

Side A:

  1. What'd I Say
  2. Jumpin' In The Mornin'

Side B:

  1. You Be My Baby
  2. Tell Me How Do You Feel
  3. What Kind Of Man Are You

Side C:

  1. Rockhouse
  2. Roll With My Baby

Side D:

  1. Tell All The World About You
  2. My Bonnie
  3. That's Enough

        

      Reviews:

      "The music and performance of ray charles are always at an indisputable level, but it is evident that this album was built around the hit what'd i say also taking songs from years back, in which swing influences are heard and the voice is set differently. having said that, already the title track itself would justify the purchase, because it is one of the first examples of modern soul, in which the then unknown wurlitzer sound appears. other highlights are the jump boogie of "jumpin in the morning", "tell me how you feel" and the swing with modal switch I6 / 9 bVII6 / 9 "roll with me baby"; there is also space for an instrumental slow and a song sung only by the choristers, that is "what kind of man are you". other songs, originals or covers, often have harmonic progressions very often used by ray charles, along the lines of "hallelujah i love her so", so they are less interesting but still pleasant." AllMusic Review by Gabriele Benardi

      "The phone call that Ray Charles placed to Atlantic Records in early 1959 went something like this: “I’m playing a song out here on the road, and I don’t know what it is—it’s just a song I made up, but the people are just going wild every time we play it, and I think we ought to record it.” The song Ray Charles was referring to was “What’d I Say,” which went on to become one of the greatest rhythm-and-blues records ever made. Composed spontaneously out of sheer showbiz necessity, “What’d I Say” was laid down on tape on this day in 1959, at the Atlantic Records studios in New York City.

      The necessity that drove Ray Charles to invent “What’d I Say” was simple: the need to fill time. Ten or 12 minutes before the end of a contractually required four-hour performance at a dance in Pittsburgh one night, Charles and his band ran completely out of songs to play. “So I began noodling—just a little riff that floated into my head,” Charles explained many years later. “One thing led to another and I found myself singing and wanting the girls to repeat after me….Then I could feel the whole room bouncing and shaking and carrying on something fierce.”

      What was it about “What’d I Say” that so captivated the audience at the Pittsburgh dance that night and the rest of humanity ever since then? Charles always thought it was the sound of his Wurlitzer electric piano, a very unfamiliar instrument at the time. Others would say it was the call-and-response in the song’s bridge—all unnnhs and ooohs and other sounds not typically found on the average pop record of 1959. Whatever it was, it worked well enough to become Charles’ closing number from that night in Pittsburgh until his final show.

      “You start ’em off, you get ’em just first tapping their feet. Next thing they got their hands goin’, and next thing they got their mouth open and they’re yelling, and they’re singin’ and they’re screamin’. It’s a great feeling when you got your audience involved with you.” Review By History

       

       

      Ratings:

      AllMusic : 3 / 5 ; Discogs : 4.64 / 5

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